As if we didn't already know, we have yet another piece of evidence that one of the major "accomplishments" of the Bush administration (and you didn't think there were any) has been a relentless push for more executive power. It is hardly a secret, of...
On February 26, 2008, the world-renowned New York Philharmonic orchestra, under the baton of Lorin Maazel, performed works by Wagner, Dvorak, Gershwin, Bizet and Bernstein in Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On March 2, 2008,...
Sen. John McCain is already spreading the old "strategic interests" fertilizer along the presidential campaign trail while pretending to be an expert. Let's hope he really can explain what interests require us to maintain troops in Germany and Japan 63 years...
Updated at 8:49 p.m. EDT, April 4, 2008Although Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stopped threatening more crackdowns, he continues his attempt to reassert his power against Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Meanwhile, at least 51 Iraqis were killed and...
Growing tensions between North Korea and the new, more hawkish South Korean government are spurring concern among US experts that already halting progress toward implementation of a denuclearization deal with Pyongyang could unravel. US officials, notably Assistant...
Last week's violent clashes in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra reverberated all the way to Washington, where suddenly, the Iraq war was thrust back into the limelight just as the 2008 primary season enters its final stretch. On Monday at the Washington...
"Yes, it was a good war," writes Richard Cohen in his column challenging the thesis of pacifist Nicholson Baker in his new book, Human Smoke, that World War II produced more evil than good. Baker's compelling work, which uses press clips and quotes of Axis...
I have to laugh – otherwise, I'll never stop crying. In perusing the headlines this morning , trying to decide which fresh disaster to focus on, I'm reminded of what H. L. Mencken had to say about America in the third volume of his Prejudices: "Here, more than...
On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the east coast of...
Yes, their defensive zone is the planet and they patrol it regularly. As ever, their planes and drones have been in the skies these last weeks. They struck a village in Somalia, tribal areas in Pakistan, rural areas in Afghanistan, and urban neighborhoods in Iraq....
